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Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter Solstice (2005)
Director: Martyn Friend
Starring: Sinead Cusack, Jan Niklas, Jean Simmons, Geraldine Chaplin, Peter Ustinov
Rosamunde Pilcher ('Coming Home') has another best-selling novel adapted into an absorbing miniseries. The recently bereaved Elfrida Phipps moves to a... Read more
Bergerac: Series 1 (1981)
6.8/10
Director: Ian Toynton, Martin Campbell, Martyn Friend
Starring: John Nettles, Terence Alexander, Celia Imrie, Mela White
The brooding Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac (John Nettles) of Jersey's Bureau des Etrangers remains one of TV's most popular detectives. The tough re... Read more
Rebus: Black & Blue / The Hanging Garden / Dead Souls (2000)
7.5/10
Director: Maurice Phillips, Martyn Friend
Starring: John Hannah, Sara Stewart, Gayanne Potter, Rony Bridges, Jenny Ryan
John Hannah produced, and stars in, these gritty adaptations of the best-selling detective novels by acclaimed Scottish author, Ian Rankin. Rebus conf... Read more
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: Collection 3 ( At Bertram's Hotel / Nemesis / 4.50 From Paddington ) (1987)
7.8/10
Director: Mary McMurray, David Tucker, Martyn Friend
Starring: George Baker, Joan Hickson, Philip Bretherton, Margaret Tyzack
'At Bertram's Hotel' - Miss Marple goes on holiday to an hotel where time stands still and she is struck by something odd about the place and the gues... Read more
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder / 4:50 From Paddington (1987)
7.8/10
Director: John Davies, Martyn Friend
Starring: Joan Hickson
Joan Hickson stars as Agatha Christie's most popular character - prim and proper Miss Jane Marple - in two full-length mysteries: "Sleeping Murder" -... Read more
The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries: Series 2 (1995)
Director: Martyn Friend, Jim Goddard, John Woods
Starring: Patrick Malahide, William Simons, Belinda Lang
Shooting, stabbing, poison... there are many ways to commit crime, but there's only one man who can solve it - Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alle... Read more
Wycliffe: Series 1 (1994)
7.1/10
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax, A J Quinn, Martyn Friend
Starring: Jack Shepherd, Bill Nighy, Aaron Harris, Tim Wylton, Helen Masters, Jimmy Yuill
Based on the novels by W.J. Burley and set against the windswept Cornish coast, this acclaimed detective series follows the exploits of the meticulous... Read more